A Lancaster man arrested last fall for a string of burglaries only three months after his release from prison was sentenced again last month.

Dennis Michael Robertson, 45, 2720 Lynwood Drive, was sentenced Feb. 21 to 12 years in prison after he pleaded guilty to two counts of violent second-degree burglary, according to a press release from Sixth Circuit Solicitor Doug Barfield.

The U.S. Department of Education has approved the S.C. Department of Education’s proposed guidelines to evaluate educators.

The performance-based educator-evaluation overhaul is a requirement of the flexibility waiver granted last year by the U.S. Department of Education exempting the DOE from key provisions of No Child Left Behind.

A Lancaster man told police that an argument with his girlfriend resulted in her cutting him with a knife last month.

An officer met with the man at the Municipal Justice Center shortly after 6 p.m. Feb. 11. The man, who lives on West Barr Street, said he was asleep in the bed that morning when he was awakened by his live-in girlfriend, who had her hands around his throat, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

The man said he jumped up and pushed her off him. They then got into a verbal argument, the report said.

A Lancaster man remains jailed after he was arrested for punching a nurse at Springs Memorial Hospital last month.

Dwight Thomas Elder Jr., 36, 2119 W. Meeting St., was arrested Feb. 18 on charges of aggravated assault and battery and possession of a knife during a violent crime, according to a Lancaster Police Department incident report.

Officers responded at 2:11 p.m. Feb. 18 to an assault at the hospital, 800 W. Meeting St., and were met at the emergency room entrance by a nurse holding a kitchen knife in a clear bag.

INDIAN LAND – Public outcry by Indian Land residents along Shelley Mullis Road has resulted in Lancaster County officials backing away from plans to place a temporary recycling and household trash collection center next to a park.

The site at the center of the uproar was to have been located next to Roy Hardin Park at 8341 Shelley Mullis Road, across from the Shelley Woods subdivision.